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Article: Many insomnia drugs in therapeutic pipeline.(Psychiatry)
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- Internal Medicine News
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- November 1, 2005
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DENVER -- The pharmaceutical industry envisions the insomnia market as a field of dreams, judging by the sizable array of agents moving through the developmental pipeline.
And these aren't "me-too" drugs, either. They involve a wealth of new therapeutic targets and novel mechanisms of action.
"I think we're really going to have some better options for our patients in the near future," Daniel Jr Buysse, M.D., said at a satellite symposium held with the annual meeting of the Associated Professional Sleep Societies.
Many drugs are commonly used off-label for insomnia, but the benzodiazepine receptor agonists and the newly approved melatonin ...